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	SUNET's Web Index: Student Organizations
		Helsingkrona Nation at the University of Lund, Sweden - The student nation of Helsingborg and Landskrona at University of Lund in Sweden.
		Västgöta nation i Linköping - A students organisation at Linköping University, mainly for students from the province Västergötland.
		Gästrike-Hälsinge Student Nation - Student nation in Uppsala that is mainly for students with connections to the regions of Gästrikland and Hälsingland in Sweden.
	katalogen.sunet.se /cat/education/organizations/student_organizations

	Boston.com / News / Nation / UC student council OKs fee increase
		The CU student fee appears to be the largest yet in the nation to cover such improvements, said Carl Krueger, an analyst with the Denver-based Education Commission of the States.
		Student leaders at the University of Colorado voted to raise student fees to help fund a law school, improvements to the business school and a new learning center, projects that would have been scuttled by a declining in state funding.
		University of Connecticut students recently voted to cover $5 million of a $47 million Student Union renovation with a $26 annual fee.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/04/30/uc_student_council_oks_fee_increase

	SWEDEN.SE - A nation of student unions
		There are 13 student nations in each of the two cities, and although they bear the names of Swedish regions, students may register at any nation, regardless of their origin.
		Today, nations differ mainly in the scope of their activities rather than the geographical background of their members, though Swedish students still tend to register with the nation that bears the name of their own region.
		Good stories from exchange students, however, are plentiful; the results from a simple Google search will show you that for most foreign students in Lund and Uppsala, the time they spent with their nation was one of the absolute highlights of their stay.
	www.sweden.se /templates/PrinterFriendlySISArticle____6912.asp

	The South End Newspaper - Colleges step up battle against student suicide - NATION/WORLD - News
		In front of hundreds of students, a Florida International University student killed his former girlfriend, a BCC student, and then himself.
		But student suicides have drawn intense focus in recent years, perhaps because they occur in the folds of institutions that are, increasingly, being held accountable.
		Still, suicide is less prevalent among college students than among their peers who aren’t in higher education, according to a 1997 research project led by a University of Chicago psychiatrist.
	www.southend.wayne.edu /modules/news/article.php?storyid=1033

	MCPS: Student Affairs Office
		National Student Government Day recurred each fall over the next two years, then was switched to the month of April beginning in 1976.
		National Student Leadership Week offers you the opportunity to recognize your outstanding leaders for their contributions to the school and community.
		Following are some suggestions to let your students, their families, your school, government leaders, and the entire community know that our nation has an outstanding generation of young people.
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /departments/studentaffairs/sao/leadershipweek

	Business Wire: FinancialAid.com Relieves Graduates' Financial Burden with Nation's Lowest Student Loan Consolidation Rates
		When they consolidate their student loans with FinancialAid.com's HALO Rewards Program, under current federal rates, most borrowers will receive an immediate low interest rate of 3.25 percent and those with loan balances over $20,000 will be eligible for a one percent rate reduction after 36 months of on-time payments.
		This student loan consolidation program will allow eligible recent graduates to reduce their monthly student loan payments by up to 54 percent and reach an interest rate as low as 2.25 percent faster than ever.
		The money saved with student loan consolidation may be used to alleviate credit card debt, help with living expenses or provide grads the option to save money for the future.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2003_Feb_25/ai_98045190

	First Nation Skills Training
		For specific information about funding for First Nation students, call your local band office.
		The student must be enrolled in the program for at least eight months which leads to a recognized certificate, diploma, degree and which normally has a grade 12 equivalent as its entrance requirement.
		The students must meet the entrance requirements and have been accepted for enrollment in a recognized post-secondary institution for a program of studies.
	career.kcdc.ca /fund/fndegree.php

	Niagara College :: Student Life and Services
		Special tutors and conversation partners are arranged for international students so that they may enjoy the company and assistance of English-speaking students their own age.
		Students and graduates are encouraged to take advantage of the wide range of job search assistance and job opportunities available.
		Because students come to the College from around the world, there is a good mix of languages, cultures and interests that makes studying at Niagara College a truly rewarding experience.
	web.niagarac.on.ca /studying/student_life_003.htm

	Bates Student: News: Nation shocket by murder of gay Univ. of Wyoming student
		Nation shcoked by the murder of gay Univ. of Wyoming student
		Bates Student: News: Nation shocket by murder of gay Univ. of Wyoming student
		On Wednesday, October 7th, Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped and fatally beaten.
	abacus.bates.edu /people/studpubs/BatesStudent/128/4/News/wyoming.html

	Coke: The New Nike
		Behind that image, however, a growing student movement is taking the company to task for its less than harmonious record of human rights around the globe.
		"We are disappointed in the student boycotts because the campaigns are based on inaccuracies regarding the situation on the ground, " she writes.
		Romero says that in addition to boycotts, students will soon be conducting sit-ins similar to those that helped publicize sweatshop abuses by Nike and other companies in the late 1990s.
	www.thenation.com /doc.mhtml?i=20050411&s=blanding

	UNH hosts nation’s first student-led summit on promoting responsible celebrations
		“Student Summit: Promoting Responsible Celebrations” was initiated by UNH students in response to the disturbing events surrounding UNH’s trip to the NCAA Hockey Championships in April 2003, and following the growing trend of similar events taking place on college campuses across the country.
		The summit will bring together teams of students, university administrators, faculty and community members from universities across the United States to discuss such things as the role of campus climate and culture and the enforcement of campus codes and criminal laws.
		“Many students are concerned about what happened and why,” Catherine Clarke, UNH’s student body vice president, said.
	www.unh.edu /news/campusjournal/2003/september/091203summit.html

	Nation Wide Student Loan Consolidators
		The Federal Student Loan Consolidation program was established by Congress as a means of helping student loan borrowers cope with their educational debt, by providing a lower monthly payment, fixed interest rate (as low as 3.2%), flexible payment plans, and single billing.
		The benefit of government student loan consolidation is that you lock in one FIXED rate that is based on an average of your loans’ current rates.
		The Federal Student Loan Consolidation Program is a powerful financial management tool that can help you manage the repayment of your federally guaranteed student loans.
	www.nwslc.com

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- NYU student kills self in plunge from high-rise
		Authorities have not yet ruled on the death of a third student, a woman who fell to her death from the window of a friend's apartment near campus.
		NEW YORK – A 19-year-old New York University student committed suicide by jumping from a high-rise window, the fourth student to die in a plunge this academic year, officials said.
		One NYU student committed suicide last semester by jumping from a high floor of a library.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20040310-0447-nyusuicide.html

	National Catholic Reporter: Boston College to consider gay/straight student alliance - Nation
		National Catholic Reporter: Boston College to consider gay/straight student alliance - Nation
		The first gay student organization dates back to 1974, said Tim Carraher, a junior from Oak Park, Ill. Carraher is the current co-director of the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community--the still not formally recognized on-campus, self-governing student organization, which provides support, education and counseling for both individuals and groups.
		But the week of Feb. 10, when representatives of the university's student government were scheduled to meet with a school vice president, Boston College moved one step closer to formal recognition of a support and educational organization addressing gay students' needs.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_16_39/ai_98370568

	Raise the Nation Foundation
		Our mission at Raise The Nation is to provide economic support to single parent women who want to continue with their education or repay student loans.
		Raise The Nation provides money directly to the Colleges, Universities and student loan providers for the purpose of helping these women complete and pay for their education.
		In addition, student loan repayment is difficult, often amounting to the equivalent of a monthly new car or mortgage payment.
	www.raisethenation.org

	APTN FORUMS -> Feds to tax First Nation student grants
		Removal of the need to report whether students successfully completed the year and were returning in subsequent years to complete programs went against the Auditor Generals recommendation that FN reporting should include results, not the general garbage INAC was seeking and filing in the round filing cabinent beside their desks.
		Taxing FN government education program or Band’s individual education grant program to students is a good thing to create self-discipline and act as an aloofness deterrent to which in the realistic world are best fit characteristics as oppose to embracement to dependency.
		I have found out that most Aboriginal women students that entered university as I did are now social workers streamlined by the government and their bands.
	www.aptn.ca /forums/index.php?showtopic=35&view=getlastpost

	The South End Newspaper - NATION/WORLD - Student journalists barred from digging into campus issues
		But the Rutgers student newspaper, The Daily Targum, refused to run the piece, saying it lacked balance, and that Reiss had failed to overcome her preconceptions in reporting the piece.
		Mostly, he said, the decision was an effort to give journalism students “the most real-world approach possible,” getting them off campus and into town halls and other venues.
		Some say that the university, with more than 50,000 students and a large publicly funded bureaucracy — is the perfect laboratory for honing journalistic techniques.
	www.southend.wayne.edu /modules/news/print.php?storyid=1098

	Debt Consolidation Nation - Student Loan Debt Consolidation
		Student loan debt consolidation can reduce your monthly student loan payment by as much as 50 percent, and it's easier than you might think.
		Student loan debt consolidation information can be found by cruising through our site.
		Nobody wants to be paying off a student loan when they are old and gray.
	www.debtconsolidationnation.com /debt-consolidation/student-loan-debt-consolidation.html

	Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund
		Due to the generous contribution by the Métis Nation of Ontario to the OSOTF, Student Awards will be available to Métis students at George Brown College beginning in Spring 2000.
		The Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) was established in 1996 by the Province of Ontario to provide financial support for Ontario college and university students pursuing full-time post-secondary education.
		On an annual basis, the income earned on endowments are distributed in the form of bursaries for needy student at George Brown College.
	www.gbrownc.on.ca /financialaid/osotf-metis.html

	BGSU to Host Nation's Largest Student Philanthropy
		This will give students "the chance to build a relationship with the families and see exactly where the money is going," Wade said.
		Bowling Green is developing its program similar to one at Penn State University which received national media attention last year for raising more than $1 million for the Four Diamonds Fund at Hershey Medical Center.
		Campus organizations will sponsor students to dance in the marathon.
	www.bgsu.edu /offices/pr/news/1995/Dec95/dancemarathon.html

	Scoop: Nation-Wide Student Fight For EUB
		The EUB was cut by the National government in 1998, and was criticised at the time by the Labour Party as a “mean spirited attack on students”.
		Student associations should not be forced to run food banks due to ill conceived government policy,” said NZUSA Co President Andrew Campbell.
		Tomorrow (March 14) sees students associations around the country staging demonstrations and protests against the government’s inaction on the EUB, which students want to be included in the upcoming government budget.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/ED0103/S00024.htm

	Horse - Student's Nation's Cup
		In the meantime, under the guidance of national responsible, Anna-Kate Shoveller (AB), the Canadian Universities Riding Clubs Association (CURCA) is considering hosting a Student Rider's Nation's Cup in the Montreal area for August 2000.
		Since all other Nation's Cups organized by the Association Internationale des Étudiants Cavaliers are held in Europe, the need for sponsorship is still high.
		The competition was exhilarating, well organized and like all student-riding competitions, allowed students across the globe to share their common love for equestrian sports.
	www.horsequest.com /journal/clubnews/canada1.html

	The Burma Campaign UK: STA Travel hit by nation-wide student protests over Burma links
		The Burma Campaign UK student network is planning a nation-wide day of action against STA Travel on Monday 1st March.
		STA are the main agent used by students with 65 university and high street branches.
		Students from 33 universities including London, Norwich, Cardiff and Leicester, are expected to take part.
	www.burmacampaign.org.uk /pm/weblog.php?id=P114

	summary.doc
		Our lobbying would not be possible without the support of you, the ABA's law student members, who allow the ABA Law Student Division to be the united force of the nation’s law students.
		Because of the leadership from the nation’s SBA presidents and ABA representatives each year at our Annual Meeting, our national Assembly has created policy for the Law Student Division, which has included support for increasing Stafford Loans and loan repayment initiatives.
		Accordingly, the Law Student Division has coordinated its resources and collaborated with the ABA Governmental Affairs Office to work specifically on issues of student debt, including an effort to advocate for an increase in Stafford Loans, loan repayment initiatives, and other student debt-related issues.
	www.abanet.org /lsd/lrap/summary.doc

	Grade Seven Social Studies: Unit Four
		After reading Student Handout #17, complete the chart to identify the pros and cons of Prime Minister Macdonald's plan to change Canada by constructing a railway across the nation.
		But there are still excellent ports for trade to the nations across the sea, and the farmers, lumbermen and merchants depend upon this trade for their livelihood.
		Student Handout #12: Political Change in Russian Society
	www.sasked.gov.sk.ca /docs/midlsoc/gr7/74handouts2.html

	www.NASFAA.org American Student Assistance (ASA) Produces Largest One-Year Drop in Cohort Default Rate Among Nation's Top Guarantors
		Incorporated in 1956, ASA was the nation's first student loan guarantee agency and a model for the federal student loan guarantee program.
		American Student Assistance, the nation's original student loan guarantor, has seen the largest one-year decline in cohort default rate among the nation's leading guarantors.
		Cohort default rates are calculated annually and are based on the percentage of students who enter repayment and default before the end of the next fiscal year.
	www.nasfaa.org /publications/2004/cnasa091704.html?Print=Yes

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Organizers worry nation's largest student-run rodeo at the end of its trail
		After 30 years of putting on the nation's largest student-run professional rodeo, members of the University of Georgia's Block and Bridle Club say the event's future is uncertain.
		Organizers worry nation's largest student-run rodeo at the end of its trail
		SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Organizers worry nation's largest student-run rodeo at the end of its trail
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20040420-0037-roped-offrodeo.html

	Glader named one of nation's best student journalists; junior wins two national scholarships (3/01/2000)
		Glader also was named one of eight students in the nation to receive a $3,000 award from The Freedom Forum and NCAA Foundation for sports journalism.
		The students were not required to be journalism or communications majors, and could work in any department of the newspaper.
		Nominees had to be enrolled as full-time students in the college or university.
	www.usd.edu /urelations/news/archives/2000/March/march01.html

	Across The Nation Growing Student Global AIDS Campaign Holds Conference at Indiana University - Kaisernetwork.org
		Student Global AIDS Campaign, a grassroots effort that has "spread like a field fire" among students since its founding last year, held a Midwest conference this past weekend at Indiana University in Bloomington, the
		Education is necessary to motivate people about HIV/AIDS in Africa or Asia, Will Prichard, a junior at Harvard University and national media spokesperson for the campaign, said, adding that the U.S. government and the U.S. population cannot continue to ignore the facts about HIV/AIDS and the utility of education and prevention strategies (Meunier,
		Growing Student Global AIDS Campaign Holds Conference at Indiana University
	www.kaisernetwork.org /Daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=9701

	Välkommen till Norrlands Nation på Internet.
		Norrlands Nation is a society of students mainly from the northern parts of Sweden, and was founded in its present form in 1827 though its roots dates back to the 1640's.
		It is the largest student nation in Uppsala (and Sweden) with about 7000 members.
		She can answer almost every question about the nation, and she will help you to find the right people to talk to if you would need more help.
	www.norrlandsnation.se /site.php?page=InfoInEnglish&expand=11

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